On 29Oct2020 03:05, Globe Trotter via Mutt-users <mutt-users@mutt.org> wrote:
>My apologies for answering my own question, but I have found the bug: there is
>an extraneous \" and it should be the following:
>
>mailboxes `find ~/Maildir/* -type d | grep -v "tmp\|new\|cur" | sed
>'s|~/Maildir/|=\"|g' | sed 's|$||g' | tr '\n' ' '`
>
>It works now, and the problems have also been resolved.
>Thanks again!
I'm glad to hear this.
Might I suggest you put this shell command in a distinct shell script so
that your muttrc has this:
mailboxes `mutt-mailboxes`
which avoids a suite of nested-quotes related issues, and also makes it
easier to modify if you find a need.
You can also improve the find:
find "$HOME/Maildir"/* -type d \( \( -name tmp -o -name new -o -name cur \)
-prune \) -o -exec ismaildir {} ';' -print
This find:
- does not print or descend into the tmp/new/cur subdirectories
- only prints actual Maildirs
Regarding the latter, here's some output:
/Users/cameron/mail/VZ
/Users/cameron/mail/XREF-REVIEW/xfs
without the "ismaildir" check there would be a spurious:
/Users/cameron/mail/XREF-REVIEW
directory listed, which is not a Maildir but does contain Maildirs.
Also, being a shell script makes it easier to clean up the paths too:
#!/bin/sh
cd "$HOME/Maildir"
find * -type d \( \( -name tmp -o -name new -o -name cur \) -prune \) -o
-exec ismaildir {} ';' -print
No stripping, just cd to the top directory and print relative paths.
"ismaildir" is a script of my own:
https://hg.sr.ht/~cameron-simpson/css/browse/bin/ismaildir?rev=tip
but it is very simple - it just checks for directoriness and the
presence if the 3 required subdirectories.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
